Putin said: Cryptocurrency “has the right to exist and can be used as a means of payment,”...
Yet: "Still, he cautioned it was too soon to talk about using digital currencies for trading oil and other commodities that form the bulk of Russia’s exports."
So, i assume that (actual) Rusia goverment dont want ban cryptos, but regulate them...
If this is true, this is good news since totally banning it means negative to the crypto market and might affect the price a little bit. But according to it, they just wanted to learn how to manage it well when their people started to adopt it. If they're the one who is regulating the use of crypto, then it will be a huge blow to China since they might be thinking that banning the crypto miners in their country would cause chaos in the crypto industry that would lose the trust of other countries from considering the regulation of the crypto industry.